There are very few movies that I could say were ruined by music choice but I just watched the first two Mad Max movies and could not take them seriously at any point because of how horribly unfitting their scores were. Traditional 80's Hollywood brass and strings absolutely does not mesh with crazy psychos shooting eachother in tricked out cars, I had given up by the final chase scene in Road Warrior and muted the damn movie and it was the first scene to actually feel intense. I would kill for a Mad Max movie with the surface elements of Fury Road (really good cinematography, action scenes, and music) except without the dogshit characters and plot (Road Warrior did both of these much better).
Now all I've got left is Thunderdome, please tell me it tones down the overorchestrated bullshit that plagued the first to movies otherwise I'll just watch it muted as well.
Joshua Flores
Thunderdome is a shitty movie even on mute. It starts out as a Mad Max film and switches to a PG-13 lord of the flies half way through.
Also, the orchestration is just as bad even though slightly updated. Tina Turner must have sucked some dicks to get three or four songs on the soundtrack.
Andrew Rodriguez
Fury Road was a pretty based anti-feminism movie if you ask me. Opinions?
Luke Torres
I like the individual songs, but as part of the movie they mostly do not work. it's like they just picked a bunch of songs that they enjoyed and then put them on top of the film
take, for example, the Real Human Bean scene. the song just feels completely out of place and draws attention away from what's going on in the scene
Christian Martinez
Dang, I was hoping it would be better than 2 on merit of going even crazier with a focus on psycho raiders or something.
I am just really desperate for good action movies in creative settings with crazy characters. A lot of people here shit on MM Feminism Road (often for good reason), but I still like it a lot despite it having an atrocious plot and protagonists (besides Nux) just because it has god tier cinematography and art direction, really good action scenes, really fun setting, and solid music.
It was a movie that tried to be a feminist movie and failed so incredibly hard that it makes all women look like petty, incompetent, retards that fuck up absolutely everything without fail (wanting to escape from very privileged life because we wuz thangs n shiet, wasting precious water on washing themselves, and the old grannies fucked up one of the only places that grew plants and are bad people that use sex as bait). I can't remember anything particularly retarded that Furiosa did though, but she was nearly a Mary Sue so I'm certainly not saying that she was a good or interesting character.
Nux and Joe's family were byfar the most interesting characters in the movie. I actually did kinda like Hardy's take on Max though, he just needs to have more lines and come off as a bit more crazy.
Also where the fuck was the ultraviolence? They have some pretty gruesome deaths (especially Joe's) but all of them are only shown on screen for like half a second so you don't see shit. Everything about these movies would be massively complimented by ridiculous violence and I absolutely expected it before each of them but nope.
David Adams
Fuck you, Brian May's score is absolutely awesome and fitting. I love the heavy use of timpani in his scores, really fits the depressingly psycho atmosphere of the films. Fury Road's score has a few pleasing licks, but as a whole it's garbage compared to Road Warrior. You're a pleb fam.
FYI I heard somewhere a long time ago that George Miller actually planned to give Road Warrior a punk rock soundtrack, probably similar to what we hear in Fury Road.
Or maybe it tried to look feminist to get good ratings from faggy critics and grab some oscar awards.
John Davis
It's a bayformers-tier, two-hour exploshuns-n-CGI-fest with jack diddly squat in the way of actual plot, characters, or just generally a singular fucking reason to care about anything that's happening onscreen, with the name "Mad Max" tacked on to cash in on fan nostalgia.
Feminism is the least of its problems.
Also, this
Nolan Myers
The explosions and CGI are fucking nice though. They feel over the top but not fake. Probably the best I've ever seen in any modern action flicks.
Gabriel Flores
What a fucking nornalfag plebian.
Isaiah King
Did anybody on this board even see Road Warrior? Furce Road was more true to the Original than Thunderdome.
